Folding photographic camera.



i UNITED STAT ES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. BROWNELL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EASTMAN KODAK CO., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FOLDING 'BHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA.

Specification of lLetters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Original app1ication filed May 18, 1905, SeralNo. 261,082. Divided and this application led. May 18. 1907.

Serial No. 374,501.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I FRANK A. BROWNELL, of Iochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York have invented certain 5 new and useful Improven'ients in Folling Photographic. Cameras; andl do hereby de clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

forming a part of the specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to folding cameras and particularly to that class in which the lens board is connected to Athe l5 miniera liodv by a bellows which, with the lens. adapted to be housed by the said cainci-a body. In this class of cameras the lens board .nid the bellows, in closed position, are `cexeredby a door which supports said parts in their operative position and is provided with one or more legs.l These legs together with the camera body, enable an operator to support the camera in an uprightposition upon a table or other object for the purpose -of holding the camera stationary when it is desirable 'to make a time exposure.

It is an object of my invention to provide legs of this type that are inexpensive to manufacture and so constructed and mounted that, in operative position, they form strong and effective supports and in inoperative position they are housed and will not interfere .with the handling of the camera, as for instance, with the insertion of the latter into a pocket of wearing apparel.

Other and further objects will appear in the following description and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims here- 4 0 to appended.

In the drawings: Figure l, is a side view of a camera in its operative position, showing my in'iprovei'nei'it applied thereto; Fig. 2, 'is a front view of the camera iii closed posie, tion, showing the legs in folded position; and, Fig. 23, is a detail sectional viev.' showing the manner in which a suliportii'ig leg eligagcs the side of the cover.

rl`lic invention is shown as applied to a 450 camera described and claimed in my prior patent No. 886,473, granted May 5th, 12.)()8 on an a'iplication, of which this application is a division. In this camera, A indicates the 'camera body, B the lens board, C tiie bellowsccnnectin the lens board and the camera body and the system of levers for supporting the lens board, during its movement to and from operative osition; the camera being opened automatically by the spring E upon vthe release of a hinged door 6o F by a suitable'latch Gr, and beingclosed through the medium of links VI-I pivotally connected to the lens board and to the door F. No claim is' made in this application for this construction.

The door is formed on its opposite side edges with elongated recesses l, and pivoted legs'Q which, when in a closed position, lie within these recesses. These legs. 2 are preferably made from sheet metal and have their ,70 pivots i5 arranged on the inner .face of the door, as for instance, by being connected, with the plates or ears 4: to which the links -H are pivoted. With this arrangement of the pivots it is possible to employ the end 75` walls 5 of the recesses as-shoulders for supporting the legs in operative position and for limiting thc"s\vinging movement of the latter in the opening direction. Near their free ends the legs are formed with extensions G which act as stops for lin'iitino the movement of the legs in the other or c osing direction and provide finger pieces for withdrawing the legs from the recesses. To lock the legs in their closed or inoperative position, the legs carry latches 7V in the form of spring lingers bent laterally from one side of the plate forming the leg and adapted to engage the side edges of the door.

I claim my invention: Y

l. In a folding camera, the combination with a camera body and a lens board adapted to be housed by said body, of a hinged door adapted to cover said lens board when the latter is in inoperative position, and a leg pivoted in a position to support the camera when the latter is in open position and having a spring finger adapted to en'- gage the edge of the door.

2. In a folding camera, the combination with a eanicra body and a lens board adapt' ed to be housed by said body, of ay hinged door having a recess on one side and adapted to cover said lens board when thc latter is in Cil nopemive position, and a leg' pvo'te tb he door in position t0 support the Camela when the ateis in open pas' 'on said leg being adaptfd to lie Whn the ecess'and having means pojeetng from the Outer face the dooyby Whcfn ii; may he Whdrawn fram; said eces.

3., In a folding; came i@ h@ combnaion with a camera, body m a. lans board adapt ed be "housed by Said body, of a hinged door having fee-ess on one side and adapted to Carver Said lens ,board when the latter is in lnopeatv@ position, und L leg pv'o'd @le door in a postn 0 support the. Camera. when the latter s in open postfm, and adapte to lie Within the recess and ha t, a spring fmge adap'tfl to engage the @ge 'of the door means being aifmnged thereon 7 u w gif-55,1222

adjacen to Sad Engel" t@ engage the edge ln' a folding camm., `the combna'cn i 'wn a Camara body and a, lens board ada-@tf ed to be hou, j, by said body, of a hinged dem having; L ECCGSS on 0x15 side and adapted t0 Covey lens boa-ri. when the latel is in nopeatve posien, an ear ou "che inner of fha doel", a a poi!!A agove una in Witnesses AYNE, 

